Today, Haven is alive with activity. The normal noon time bustle seems to be busier than ever, probably due to it being such a nice, almost warm day. Spring is nearly here, and the cheerful, sunny skies and fresh breezes are lifting the spirits of the town as they prepare for the spring festival. Chastity and Simtra went out early on errands, and are now coming back to Chastity's house and the Chirr'T'Thar's "embassy".
Simtra moves head some side to side trying to look over the things that he is carrying, "Do you think you bought enough thinks today?"
Chastity pads down the street, strolling easily and enjoying the morning air. For the time being she's managed to avoid thinking about the life she nearly forgot about, and the ring she knows for certain was on her finger. For now, things are well, and a 'quick morning errand run' turned into a lovely wander through Haven's markets. He looks at Simtra and smiles quietly. "I think so. Certainly enough to last a couple of days."
Simtra gulps and shifts the packages in his arms, "Only a couple of days? With everything that we got, I though this would last for at least a week. What is all of this for anyway?"
Chastity has one hand holding her cane, and her other carrying a package. She does, however, manage to shrug cheerfully. "Well, nothing like stocking up. Besides, I'm not sure how fast I'll be going through things. How much does a felitaur eat, anyway?"
Simtra says, "Oh, the felitaurs, I forgot that we were shopping for them too. Well with their size I would guess that this could last for a couple of days. If we are lucky anyway."
Chastity chuckles softly, turning the corner to the street her new home is on. "Oh, dear. That much? Well, I imagine they'll be able to cover that. I'll just have to remember to have enough extra food at hand for any visitors.
Simtra spies the house from between the boxes and smiles, "Well, I don't know for sure how much they eat but from the size of them I would guess a good amount. Ah, your house is just ahead, I will be glad to put these down."
The street, which also has Michael's shop and home, is lined with ancient trees, planted long ago. It gives a great deal of shade, and a sense of privacy as they come up to the Chastity's two story home/shop, newly refurbished.
Jenora's voice pops in from right behind Simtra. "Need some help with those?"
Chastity's ears perk and she glances behind. "Oh! Hello, Jenora!"
Simtra eeps and jumps slightly from the voice, almost dropping a package, "I could use a little help miss."
Jenora catches one as it slides off to one side.
Jenora smiles, and waves to Chastity. Then, balancing that one package on one hand, she slips one off the other side of the pile to balance the whole stack again. "No problem."
Chastity grins softly. "Good to see you again! Will you come inside and have a cup of...." She glances into her own bag. "Cup of.. uhm, something?"
Simtra spies Jenora from where the package was, "Oh, hio Jenora. Thanks for getting that."
Jenora says, "You're welcome. And yes, thanks, Chastity."
Chastity nods, "Just this way, then!" She pads down the street towards the house.
Simtra follows Chastity, happy to be able to see where he is going again.
Chastity says as she strolls over to the house, "The Chirr'T'Thar apparently fixed up the home somewhat, and I think they were finishing it up today."
Jenora says, "Sounds good."
Chastity nods, and finally reaches the stars. She's about to open the door when her gaze falls on the door knocker.
The door looks unchanged, though on close inspection you note it is a cast replica of the original in some form of polymer, and mimics the old wooden door even to the minor scratches. In the center is a horseshoe shaped door knocker, looking to be made of silver, and just the right size to put your hand in and give the door a solid rap or two. But the "U" shape, on closer inspection, is made up of two stylized felitaurs, one male, one female, and intertwined in a Celtic fashion so that their bodies are rope-like around the "U". Considering how the felitaurs normally represent the first mother and one of her mates, this is totally tame. In fact, if you didn't know about the Chirr'T'Thar, you wouldn't think anything too unusual about it.
Simtra almost bumps into Chastity but stops himself just in time, "What is it Chastity? Something wrong?"
Jenora looks up towards the door from the back of this little procession.
Chastity just blinks at the door-knocker, her ears twitching a little. "Ah... hmm. Huh? Oh... no, nothing, Simtra.. I don't think. Maybe. Er... what do you make of this door-knocker?
Simtra moves closer to get a better look at the knocker. As he studies for a bit his ears blush bright red, "I guess I see why you stopped. A, 'interesting' door-knocker it be."
Jenora says, "Hmmm? What is it?"
Simtra steps back to let Jenora have a look, "Have a look for yourself."
Jenora steps up, holding the two boxes on her shoulders with her arms around them. "Ah, I see. Interesting... and considering the source, actually fairly tame."
Chastity taps her fingers on the head of her cane, before sighing a bit, and stepping a bit to the side. "Well, if this is going to be the felitaur embassy, I suppose it's appropriate." I wonder how the people coming to my would-be herbalry will take that knocker?
Jenora chuckles. "Sorry. The way you were acting, it sounded like they'd done something a little more crude."
Chastity smiles wanly. "Oh, just a bit of paranoia on my part." She reaches up to operate the knocker. "There used to be a small civilization we contacted. Would you believe that they were scandalized by the idea of kissing in public?"
Jenora rubs her ear a bit, and shakes her head.
Simtra says, "I don't think many would notice around here. Most would see them as a pair of dumb animals anyway."
After Chastity knocks twice, the door unlocks, apparently on it's own.
Chastity shakes her head as the door opens. "Every time I catch myself thinking that such-and-such cultural idiom is silly, I get reminded of the fact that it works both ways." She pokes her head in, then steps all of the way into the inside room.
Jenora hmmmms. "Interesting..." She walks up towards the door, and takes a closer look at the knocker as Simtra heads in.
Simtra walks to the nearest table and places the packages down on the table and then takes a seat on a chair to rest his paws.
Jenora grins mischievously, and grabs the knocker, holding the handle for a few seconds, then whistling quietly as she closes the door.
Chastity pads over to the table, setting her own package down on it. "Thanks for all your help, Simtra, I know this was a lot of stuff."
The main room is refreshingly devoid of large dragons, interstellar spies, or other disturbing creatures. There is, however, a small trail of soot leading from the fireplace towards the kitchen.
Simtra looks up and smiles, "Oh no biggie I was happy to help. Besides how would you have gotten them back without paying someone.
Chastity chuckles softly, rummaging through the bags for something that looks like tea. She knows she picked up something one of the merchants called 'herbal beverage.' "I probably wouldn't have been able to."
Jenora sets her two packages down on the table as well.
Something goes 'clunk' in the kitchen.
Chastity's ears shoot up. She straightens and leans back a bit to look into the kitchen.
Simtra ears swivel to the noise and notices the soot on the floor. Simtra whispers, "Did you expect anyone else to be here?"
There doesn't appear to be anyone or anything moving around in there. but another klunking sound is easily heard. It seems to come from one of the cabinets.
Chastity hadn't noticed the soot at first, but sees it now. She looks at her distressingly delicate-looking cane then back towards the kitchen. She shakes her head.
Jenora pads over to take a look at the soot. "Hmmm..."
Simtra nods and stands up from the chair. With his hackles up, he heads for the kitchen door and whispers back to the pair, "I will take a look to see what it is. K?"
Chastity hefts her cane resignedly, wishing for her old kaparas, or plaser, or even a club. She nods, limping quietly towards the kitchen just in case something jumps Simtra.
*klunk* *klunk* *glop* It's definitely coming from one of the upper cabinets.
Jenora pads in. "Want me to take a look?"
Simtra hmms and slowly moves to the cabinet with the noise coming from it. Standing on the side where the hinge he slowly opens the door towards himself.
The door sticks a bit at first, but then practically jumps open. A cascade of jars, bits of sealing wax, and multicolored goop poors out onto the fox, topped off by a two-foot long creature with every limb stuck in a jam jar.
Jenora chortles...
Simtra ooofs as he falls back to the floor, "What is that thing?"
Jenora walks over to take a look.
Chastity blinks. raising her cane. "Whaaa..?"
The little dragon clings to Simtra's face as best it can with its paws all stuck in jars, and its mouth apparently sealed by either honey or some sort of peanut butter. Its scales might be black under all of the jam, and a shiny blue gem seems to be embedded in its forehead.
Jenora reaches down to grasp the dragon.
Chastity says, "What is it...?"
The little critter squirms a bit, but calms down once Jenora lifts it clear of the now-sticky fox. It tries to smile as it hangs dripping.
Simtra holds still but wanting the thing off of his face since he can't see.
Jenora walks with the dragon over to the sink, and starts pulling jars off of it.
Chastity blinks over at Jenora, then looks between the cupboard and the kitchen floor. Her jaw drops as she gets a look of abject horror. "MY KITCHEN!"
The dragonet tries to shake, scrape, or rub the jam off of its paws as Jenora frees them.
Simtra pulls his tail around and wipes his eyes clean with it, "What is that? It kinda looks like Kia."
Jenora glares at the dragonet. "Quit struggling, you're making more of a mess."
Jenora nods to Simtra. "A relative of, sort of, anyway."
The little dragon stops moving around, and just blows bubbles around the edges of its stuck-shut mouth.
Simtra notices how upset Chastity is from the current mess and waits for someone to hand him a towel or something so not to drip any more food all over the floor.
Jenora sighs, and starts running water to wash the dragon off.
Chastity looks between Simtra, Jenora, and the dragonet, trying to piece together what's going on.
Jenora finishes washing Charon off, and sets him down. "Now, you're going to help cleaning up the rest of this mess, aren't you?"
Simtra tries to hold himself from shaking clean, "Uh Chastity, could I have something to clean myself up?"
Finally getting its lips clean, the little dragon peeps, "The little room trapped me and the glass things grabbed me, Jenora!"
Jenora smirks, shaking her head. "Yes, I just bet they did."
Charon swishes his tail, and asks, "What mess?"
Chastity blinks at the question, then just slowly rubs her forehead.
Simtra sighs and wonders if this dragon is blind.
Jenora groans.
"Are there other traps in here?" the remote asks. "What's that sticky stuff for? Do you build things with it?"
A knock can be heard on the front door.
Chastity ohs! "Uhm, sorry, Simtra..." Still in a daze, Chastity slips into the next room, and comes back with a towel, putting it in the sink and dampening it before handing it to Simtra.
Jenora says, "Here, you go get the door while I try to impress into our visitor the concept of jam."
Chastity sighs softly, and steps out of the kitchen, heading to the doorway. "Coming!"
Simtra takes the towel, "Thanks Chastity" and starts trying to clean himself off.
"Yes, the door was jammed," Charon agrees, bobbing his head like a bird.
Chastity reaches the door, and pulls it open slightly, peeking outside. "Yes...?"
Jenora says, "No, the sticky stuff is called jam. It's for eating, or at least use as a condiment on bread. And you've just ruined several jars of it."
Copernicus grins at Chastity, "Thought I'd knock first, so, enjoying all the surprises we left for you?"
Simtra does not seem to be having much luck getting the jam off of him. His fur is stained dark purple and brown from the food stuffs.
Chastity looks back over her shoulder. "Hello, Copernicus. One of the surprises doesn't happen to be a small dragon with a propensity for making a mess, does it?"
Charon pouts, "I didn't mean to! The covers broke when I climbed over them."
Copernicus erps? "Oh no, Andromeda must have left Charon here alone. I'll call a repair crew."
Jenora says, "You'll probably have to take a full bath to get some of that stuff out, Simtra."
Chastity all but slaps her forehead. "Gaaah..."
"Can you put jam on pancakes, Jenora?" the dragonet asks. "What about waffles? What about liver?"
Simtra ugs and walks out of the kitchen through the doorway.
Jenora sighs. "Here, just help me clean up the mess on the floor. As for your questions, yes, yes, and not usually."
Copernicus snugs Chastity, "How bad is it? We can get it fixed right away. I made sure the door knocker and knob won't recognize his DNA patterns, but if someone lets him in..."
Chastity says, "That... that.... his name is Charon?"
Charon looks over the edge of the counter, and suggests, "Since the fox has to take a bath anyway, can't he just roll around in the jam until it's sucked up into his fur?"
Chastity blinks at Copernicus. "Door knocker? You mean it does all that?
Copernicus nods, "One of Charon's remotes actually, the real Charon is bigger than the whole dock front of Haven."
Jenora says, "No, that won't work, he'll just spread it around more."
Simtra stick his head back into the kitchen door, "I heard that."
Copernicus nods, "I came down here because we got an odd reading from it. Someone spelled "CUTE" with their DNA, or at least the resonance signal."
Jenora grins. "That was me, I'm afraid. Just seeing if anyone was paying attention to what the fingerprints were showing."
Jenora calls this out from the kitchen.
Chastity blinks, stepping to the side to let Copernicus in. "You lost me, someone... Jenora? Jenora, you can.. er, do that to your own DNA?
Charon looks up to Jenora, "Do you want it all separated back into the jars then?"
Simtra wavies to Copernicus and sits down on the chair and licks a bit of jam off of him muzzle that he missed. "Coper, this is good jam."
Copernicus gives Chastity another snug, noting how upset she looks, and heads towards the kitchen and surveys the mess, "Thanks, my mothers Metora and Shatter will be pleased. They try odd recipes now and then. Gah, what a mess. Luckily we designed the floor coverings to be stain, tear and laser resistant."
Jenora walks out, carrying Charon by the scruff of his neck. "Wasn't my DNA, it was my fingerprints... and yes, I can. Long story."
Chastity blinks again. "-Laser- resistant?!"
Charon dangles and waves to Copernicus! "Thanks for putting in the little dragon tunnel!"
Copernicus nods, "Well, we had some left over from our tower. We put that in after Kainudy and WolfSinger redecorated a wall or two. :)"
Simtra hmms, "Dragon tunnel? What Dragon tunnel do you mean Charon?"
Copernicus frowns at Charon, "Dragon Tunnel?" and then smells the soot and sighs, "The chimney! Oh no!"
Jenora nods to Copernicus. "I'm afraid so."
Chastity blinks, then looks back slowly at the trail of soot. She nods slowly. "Ah. I-i-i-i-i see...
"It was really dusty in there," the little dragon adds. "You should clean it out more often."
Copernicus sighs, "Sorry Chastity, we don't have chimneys, so someone overlooked a bit of a security hole."
Chastity glances at Copernicus. "Easy on the puns...."
Charon smiles, "Did I do good then, Copernicus?"
Copernicus blinks, thinks back on what he said, and just nods at Chastity, confused, "Well, yes in that we know now to keep that entrance secure. No, for making a real mess and ruining a lot of the jazzenberry jam my mothers made."
Chastity rubs her forehead a little bit, counting to ten in Kalomeian, then back down to one in Sanskrit.
"That jam is dangerous," Charon says. "It wouldn't let go of my feet."
Jenora sighs. "Charon, you really shouldn't sneak into people's houses like that."
Simtra takes the towel that he used to clean himself up and gets down to the floor to help Jenora clean up.
The little dragon blinks innocently up at Jenora, and asks, "What is a better way to sneak into houses?"
Chastity sighs, and looks to the kitchen. "Simtra, Jenora, don't bother yourselves, please, I'll do that."
Jenora says, "You shouldn't sneak into houses at all."
Simtra hmms? "Well if you want to", and hands the towel that he was going to use to Chastity.
The little remote blinks up at the tall cat. "Even if the door is locked?"
Jenora says, "Especially if the door is locked."
Copernicus grabs a rag and rubs at the jam on the floor, and it comes up nicely.
Chastity takes the towel, "Thanks." She pads over to the kitchen, calling out, "Coper, if your people are going to put some sort of security device in the chimney, would it be possible to still use the fireplace?"
Copernicus nods, "Oh, of course."
Charon drops the subject, and twists around to look at Simtra. "Is the young fox the son of the old fox?"
Simtra gets out of the way on the floor "Hmm? Me, son of Chastity? No, my folks are back in my hometown."
Chastity's ears perk as she looks up, smiling and shaking her head. "Sorry, Charon, I've never been a mom."
Jenora sighs, still holding Charon, and shakes her head.
Simtra turns to Chastity, "You haven't? I am surprised. You are quite motherly to me and because of that I assumed that you had kits once."
"Really? Never?" the dragon seems astonished. "Why not? Do you want any? Was your fur always that color?"
Chastity smiles to Simtra, her ears pinkening. "It's a habit I picked up in Cygnus. Well.." she goes back to wiping up the mess. "More of a personality change."
Copernicus rinses out the rag several times, and shortly has most of the mess cleaned up, and he's salvaged some of the jam too. He lets Chastity finish, "Be careful, once he starts asking questions, he never stops. And, as far as I know, he started before I met him. :)"
Chastity stretches, a bit painfully, to a kneeling position, smiling softly. "It's all right, Coper. Really, never, I'm barren, see above, and yes, I was always a grey fox."
The dragonet dangles and swishes its tail happily. "I found more of those asteroids you like to feed to your ugly metal house, Copernicus."
Copernicus ahs, "Well, we have a LOT of scrap left over from the blasted invader ships, but let us know where. We'll be supplying a shipyard soon."
Simtra looks at his own fur color stained purple, "Say, does anyone else like my fur in this color? I might have to get some dye that looks like this it you think so."
"Oh.." Charon says. "I already nudged them into an intercept orbit so you wouldn't have to go get them.."
Jenora chuckles. "It's... interesting. You might start a whole new fashion trend on some worlds, but I expect it won't work out so well here."
"I've never seen a purple fox before," the remote chimes in. "At least, not a live one."
Chastity ers, stifling a small grin. "You can use the bath in the washroom, Simtra. A purple fox, well... it's just not the same."
Copernicus is trying to figure out how to get the stain out of Simtra's fur when he blinks and says two words, "Intercept Orbit?"
Charon nodnods to Copernicus.
Simtra hmms, "I guess you are right about the color." and heads to the washroom to clean up.
"They should each arrive ten days apart at the mouth of your house," the little dragon claims proudly.
Copernicus ers, "How many, how large, and how fast?"
Chastity blinks. "This is a bad thing, isn't it?"
Jenora glares at Charon. "It would have been nice to get more advance warning of this..."
Copernicus purrs, "Well, if they smash my mates orbital mining station, I could end up having my gender changed. Other than that, it's just a matter of learning to talk in a higher pitch.""
"Only a dozen," the dragonet says. "Small ones like the one Jenora went and got. I circularized the orbits as much as possible, so they should match velocity within a few meters per second."
Copernicus phews slightly, "Well, that's fairly reasonable. I'll warn them to expect some large asteroids to drop by for a visit."
Sounds of water being drawn and some old folk song being sung badly off key comes from the washroom.
Charon blinks up at Jenora again. "I didn't know how hungry the station was, so it will be a few months before they match orbit. Did you want them sooner?"
Chastity glances at Copernicus. "Ahh... smearing targets with asteroids is probably grounds for a whole lot worse than that, Coper. What are you going to do?"
Jenora says, "No, no, that should be fine... but you should have asked before you set up the orbits so we could have given advice on what would have been the easiest way to do the transfer."
Copernicus taps the com pad on his arm band and explains the situation to Ceres. She checks long range scans, and after some colorful growls that don't translate, he breaks the connection and purrs, "They're not too big, and he does have the orbits pretty well smoothed out. They'll just shift processing schedules to accommodate them."
Chastity lets out a breath. "Well, that' a relief...
"There were a few really interesting asteroids out there too," Charon says.
Jenora says, "How interesting?"
Charon blinks. It never occurred to him there could be degrees of interesting, other than 'really' and 'not very'..
Copernicus blinks as he hears the words "interesting" from Charon, and his ears go back a bit.
Jenora says, "Okay, then... interesting how?"
"You know.." the dangling dragon shrugs. "Out of the ordinary. Like the one that looks it was eaten out by giant worms. And the ones with bugs crawling on them. And there were a few with metal things in them like the Chirr'T'Thar breed.. err.. build. And one looked just like a giant potato that looked like a squashed armadillo spleen."
Chastity blinks, finishing up the cleaning. "Er.. is he always so.. descriptive?"
"I haven't been able to talk to the comets yet though," the dragon adds, almost apologetically. "I think they might be alive."
Jenora says, "When you say bugs, do you mean rocks that look like bugs, or there were actually moving things on the surface? And metal things, like enclosed boxes?"
Chastity blinks, suddenly realizing what Charon is saying. She pads out of the kitchen, wiping her hands on a clean hand towel and listening.
>Simtra finishes cleaning all of the jam out of his fur. He gets
out of the tub and grabs a towel and starts to dry himself while still
singing that song.
Charon nods. "Yeah, like that. Boxes and tubes and loops and intestines. The bugs had metal in them too. They wouldn't talk to me."
Chastity glances at the washroom, her ears flicking as she winces, managing a small smile nonetheless.
Jenora says, "Where did you find these asteroids again?"
"The inner swarm. The comets were waaaaaay out though."
Copernicus, this time, alerts both land and space based ships, and warns them to be careful approaching asteroids till this can be investigated.
>Simtra wraps his towel around his tail and another around his waist.
He looks over to the mirror to straighten his fur out and to place
his amulet back around his neck.
Looking up at Jenora, the dragonet asks, "Can I be put down now?"
Jenora says, "I suppose..."
>Simtra hmmms and looks at his chest fur next to his amulet checking
to see how his summer coat is coming in.
>Suddenly, the room spins a bit for Simtra, and he gets so dizzy
he goes to all fours to keep from falling down, and when he tries to get
up, he can't seem to stand up, and he panics. Then all of a sudden he's
able to stand up again.
>A muffled yip comes from the washroom as the singing stops at the
same time.
Jenora sets Charon back down on the ground. "Now, we're going to have to take a closer look at those asteroids..."
Chastity looks over to the washroom, frowning slightly.
Copernicus's ears flick as he also hears something from the washroom.
>Simtra pulls himself up off the floor, wraps the towel around himself
and his tail again and shakes his head. Not quite sure what happened
he walks out of the washroom and back into the kitchen.
Jenora looks at Simtra, concerned. "What happened?"
Simtra holds his head, "I am not sure. I was drying off and suddenly I was dizzy and fell to the floor. Whatever happened I feel better now."
Chastity says, "Are you all right, Simtra?"
Simtra takes a seat in a chair, "Ya, I think so. I just must have hit my head on the way down or something."
Chastity nods quietly, "Er, is there a healer or something for him to go to, Jenora, Coper...?
Jenora says, "A few around here, yes..."
Copernicus hrrms and notes most species either REALLY enjoy how his race heals, or gets really offended.
Charon hops onto Simtra's shoulder and peers into one of his ears. "Maybe you have jam in your cochlea?"
Simtra says, "I don't know if I really need a healer, I just felt dizzy and hit my head or something."
Jenora says, "Odd, though."
Simtra hmms, "I don't think I would have any in there, I would not be able to hear as well either if I did anyway."
Chastity says, "What do you mean...?"
Copernicus nods to Simtra and ponders the odd asteroids. The only one that really bothers him is the one with "bugs" on it. No telling what kind of lifeform Charon found.
Jenora sits down, shaking her head. "And life continues to get weirder. Ah well, at least it isn't boring."
"Maybe you're allergic to the jam then?" the dragonet suggests. "Or you're developing a brain tumor."
Chastity sighs, "I retired because I -wanted- a boring life..."
Copernicus purrs, "And I thought having cubs would be excitement enough."
Simtra says, "Gee you're an inquisitive one. I guess that the first could be true but I have had jam before, and I have not heard of anyone having a brain tumor."
The mini-dragon's head bobs up and down as he starts rattling off even more horrible things that could cause Simtra's dizziness, ending up with, ".. or maybe even rabies! Do you foam at the mouth and have an urge to bite people? Maybe you aren't eating enough donuts?"
Jenora plants her foot down on Charon's head, pressing it to the ground and holding the mouth shut. "I think you've had enough odd ideas for right now..."
The remote flaps his wings and tries to squirm out from under Jenora's foot, but eventually gives up and quiets down.
Copernicus nods, "Poor Simtra is getting more upset. Dizziness is not uncommon. Maybe you're slightly allergic to jazzenberry jam. No telling what Shatter put in it. Tastes good though."
Simtra says, "I guess your right, I will have to stay away from it for now. Better safe than sorry."
Chastity says, "Is.. that what all those jaws were full of...?"
Chastity says, "Er, jars, I mean.."
Copernicus hmms, "Some of it was, yes. Some was some local jams we bought. My moms wanted you to have some gifts for the place. I decided against some of the more colorful statues of the first mother and her mates. But I thought food would be safe."
Chastity opens her mouth to ask about the statues, but decides not to. "Ah, thank you, that was very thoughtful of them! Could you tell them I said thanks?"
Simtra says, "I would have thought it would be safe to eat too, but I guess not for me, ah well, it does taste very good."
"It's sticky!" Charon adds.
Copernicus nods, "My mothers are usually careful about that. No sense poisoning friends."
Chastity hrms, "You might want to check just what's in that 'jazzenberry' stuff, Coper. No need to have guests keeling over with what the natives consider normal healthy food."
"Is it sticky so you can spread on pancakes in free-fall?" Charon asks Copernicus. "How do you make pancakes in free-fall though?"
Jenora sighs, and holds her foot over Charon's head again.
Charon closes his mouth and scurries off under a chair.
Simtra stands up as he drips on the floor since his fur is still wet, "I better head up stairs and dry off a little better.
Chastity nods, "Make yourself at home, Simtra."
Simtra stops in the washroom to get another towel and then heads up the stairs to dry off.
Chastity finishes cleaning up, and, when she can get Copernicus free from his talks with Jenora about odd asteroids and "crystal brains", she has him show her any other modifications to the house, and is pleased to learn the only true modern amenity (beyond a high tech security system), is a large cooling unit for food, hidden in a closet near the kitchen. Finally, the group heads out on their respective paths, all with a lot on their minds this day.